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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19313	Virginia's God be thanked, or A sermon of thanksgiving for the happie successe of the affayres in Virginia this last yeare. Preached by Patrick Copland at Bow-Church in Cheapside, before the Honorable Virginia Company, on Thursday, the 18. of Aprill 1622. And now published by the commandement of the said honorable Company. Hereunto are adjoyned some epistles, written first in Latine (and now Englished) in the East Indies by Peter Pope, an Indian youth, borne in the bay of Bengala, who was first taught and converted by the said P.C. And after baptized by Master Iohn Wood, Dr in Divinitie, in a famous assembly before the Right Worshipfull, the East India Company, at S. Denis in Fan-Church streete in London, December 22. 1616	Copland, Patrick, ca. 1570-ca. 1655.; Pope, Peter, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 5727; ESTC S105066	22,424	48

to knocke for it must not feare to molest and disquiet and not onely shalt thou bee freed from Dangers but the doores yea all the treasures and jewels of the kingdome of Heaven shall be open vnto it But some it may be will say My danger is great yea so great that it maketh my heart to ake within me and my soule to melt for sorrow I answere the greatnesse of our Danger cannot be a stop to our Deliverance If we can but call and cry vnto the Lord in our trouble Hee will bring vs out of our Distresse The Sea-faring men here described had their hearts to melt for sorrow yet crying vnto the Lord in their trouble He brought them out of their distresse The word here translated Distresse is by Arias Montanus translated de coarctationibus and by Iunius and Tremellius ex angustijs So that the trouble here spoken of is not properly trouble but narrownes straights Be our case then never so desperate the Lord can helpe it for nothing is vnpossible to him The Israelites groaned vnto him in Egypt he heard and deliuered them from the tyrannie of Pharaoh The yong men in the Fierie Furnace called vpon him and were deliuered The cry of Daniel stopped the mouth of the roaring Lyons Paul and Silas being in bonds prayed and their chaynes fell loose from them the doores opened and gaue them passage Although wee be plunged never so low that we know not where to seeke nor where to finde although the floods of troubles runne cleane ouer and ouer vs in so much that we seeme to our selues past helpe and recovery yet are we not indeede past helpe so long as we are not past desire to be holpen Men indeed are altogether amazed and in a maner bereft of wit and vnderstanding when they feele themselues dangerously tossed too and fro as here these Sea-faring men did but when they cried in their trouble vn●o the Lord he brought them out of their distresse There was neuer affliction so great but the hand of the Lord hath beene able to master it There was neuer storme so fierce but his power hath beene able to allay it Therefore if out soules doe euen melt for trouble within vs wee must not take discomfort at it The lord sitteth aboue the water-Floods the Lord commandeth the Sea and all that is therein the Lord that turneth the storme to a calme blessed be his name and let the might of his Maiesty receiue honour for euermore hee will neuer forsake his children that crie vnto him neither in health nor sickenes light nor darkenesse stormes nor calmes in the land of the liuing nor in the land of forgetfulnes Therefore let vs resolue with holy Dauid Though I should walke thorow the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no euill I will feare no euill saith Dauid neither great nor small for it is all one with God to deliuer from the greater stormes aswell as from the lesser Some difference there is indeed of Dangers and Deliuerances out of them but it is only such as in Books printed on large and lesse letter and paper the matter not varying at all for example Whē God brought some of the ships of your former fleetes to Virginia in safty here Gods prouidence was seen felt priuately by some and this was a deliuerance written as it were in quarto on a lesser paper letter But now when God brought all of your 9. ships and al your people in thē in health safety to Virginia Yea and that ship Tyger of yours which had fallen into the hands of the Turkish men of war through tempest and contrary windes she not being able to beare sayle and by that meanes drouen out of her course some hundreds of miles for otherwise of it selfe the passage from England to Virginia is out of the walke of Turkes and cleere and safe from all Pyrates who commonly lurke neere Ilands and head-lands and not in the maine Ocean When this your Tyger had falne by reason of this storme and some indiscretion of her M●ster and people who taking the Turkes to haue beene Flemmings bound for Holland or England bore vp the helme to speake with them for they needed not if they had listed to haue come neere the Turkes but haue proceeded safely on their voyage into the hands of those mercilesse Turkes who had taken from them most of their victuals and all of their seruiceable sayles tackling and anchors and had not so much as left them an houre-glasse or compasse to steere their course thereby vtterly disabling them from going from them and proceeding on their voyage When I say God had ransomed her out their hands as the Prophet speaketh by another Sayle which they espyed and brought her likewise safely to Virginia with all her people two English boyes onely excepted for which the Turkes gaue them two others a French youth and an Irish. Was not there the presence of God printed as it were in Folio on Royall Crowne Paper and Capitall Letters that as Habacucke sayth They that runne and ride post may reade it O then how great cause haue you and they to confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men Verse 31.32 Let them therefore confesse before the Lord c. HItherto of the Danger and D●liuerance now of the Dutie which in a word is thanksgiuing The greater our danger i● the more ioyfull is our deliuerance and ●he more cheerfully ought wee to confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonder●ull workes before the sonnes of men Thanksgiuing is the end of our Deliuerance This dutie carefully performed is a singular exercise of faith when men standing vpon the shore and beholding the dangerous and tumultuous Seas which they haue passed are stirred vp to sacrifice prayse and glory to him for the s●me Gen. 8.20 Exod. 15.1 Psal. 50.15 This seruice is a further worke of faith then petition for they which are but illightned ●gainst death may serue in a sort to make some petitions to God but they neuer bethinke them at-all of the dutie of thanksgiuing when they haue receiued benefits from him And for this cause nine of the ten leapers which Christ cleansed are defamed to all posteritie by the Holy Ghost in the Gospel Let vs labour to purge our selues of such a wickednesse spending much of our time in songs of thanksgiuing Confessing before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men For thanksgiuing is as it were the homage or rent-charge which wee are to returne to God for all his mercies especially for our right to our inheritance in heauen And wee know that if men refuse to do their homage or pay their rent to their earthly Land-Lord they shal deserue thereby to be turned out of their farmes others to be put in their roome which shall discharge the duty better So if